Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed)

Ms Anna O'Sullivan:

I am not entirely certain if they are published on the Department's website. I will double check whether there is a publication. It may well be that they are published on a Commission website. Off the top of my head, I am not certain. They are discussed at the monthly quota management advisory committee meetings, which are meetings between industry representative groups and the Department. As Ms McSherry said, it is primarily industry representatives who make contact with their opposite numbers in other member states to seek out opportunities or in response to other member states looking for swaps. They are then administered by Department officials. I will double-check whether there is a publicly available list of them and respond to the Chair.